Saturday 18th June 2011

VISIT TO THE UK – ONGOING PREPARATIONS:

Ongoing preparations for the journey are coming on fast. Recently I travelled to the UK to obtain more background material for the journey. This involved a visit to the Royal Entomological Society library, where I photographed the journals of G C Champion’s brother-in-law J J Walker.

Photographing the journals of J J Walker in the Royal Entomological Society library.

This was followed by a visit to the Natural History Museum, in London, where the original letters from GCC in Central America to his employers, Godman and Salvin, are now kept.

Standing next to the plaque commemorating Godman & Salvin at the NHM

Finally, I visited the Oxford Museum of Natural History, where I was shown around the collections by Curator James Hogan. Many specimens obtained by G C Champion and J J Walker are housed in this museum’s extensive collections.

Specimens of the weevil Baris scolopacea, collected by GCC on the Isle of Sheppey

Finca Valhalla
The Valhalla Project is a Guatemala based organization that seeks to reverse global warming, assist indigenous people in developing self-sustaining agriculture, and educate the public about the environment.

Forest Research Institute
Established as Imperial Forest Research Institute in 1906, Forest Research Institute (FRI) Dehradun is a premier institution under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE).